Tag: book tag

I was tagged by Melanie and Mireille from TBR and Beyond and thought it looked fun. The creator of the tag is Jenniely and it is a tag to discover if you have been naughty or nice this year!

Rules

Tag & link the person who tagged you

Tag and link the creator

Tick/cross off the ones you’ve done

Tag another 10 people!

1. Received an ARC and not reviewed it.

Naughty

I have unfortunately left some ARCs unread, especially early on. Even now, I skip a few here and there because I either run out of time, or they just don’t sound as appealing anymore. I do try my best to read ARCs first though. Especially if it’s a physical arc that I requested. I always read those. Unrequested ones sometimes don’t get read though.

“Halloween Creatures 2.0 Book Tag”. The original creator of this tag is Anthony @ Keep Reading Forward . I was tagged by Raven at Dreamy Addictions. I’m horrible with tags, but wanted to give this one a try. I also love Raven’s blog, so make sure you check it out!

➽ How to do this tag: Find a book that contains (either on the cover or in the title) an example for each category. You must have a separate book for all 20, get as creative as you want and do it within five minutes!

THROWBACK:
A SONG THAT REMINDS YOU OF THE CRINGIEST TIME OF YOUR LIFE / A BOOK THAT ALSO REMINDS YOU OF THIS TIME (OR JUST SOMETHING YOU WOULDN’T LIKE AS MUCH IF YOU PICKED IT UP FOR THE FIRST TIME NOW)

Maybe not the cringiest time in my life, but definitely a person I don’t like to think about. I still like this song and book, but they do make me remember that time of my life more than I would like.

Choose 12 bloggers to tag and include a link to their latest post, so others can check them out and meet new people.

Answer all 12 questions in The Challenge Questions section, but replace the 12th question with your own new one around telling the truth or revealing something interesting about yourself — you can leave the existing if you can’t think of something. (comment your answers to my question below before you change and post)

Make sure to add your own DARE to your tagged guests at the bottom of the post!

If you haven’t been tagged, but you want to play along, you can totally jump on in and post responses to the tag on your blog.

Include these rules when you copy/paste to your own post.

TRUTH: Answer the challenge questions as truthful as possible!

OR

DARE: If you choose not to accept the tag, you have to follow through on whatever dare the person who tags you chooses.

My dare to you is to read the book that has been on your tbr list the longest.

QUESTION 1:You’re on your way to a birthday dinner that your friends have thrown for you. When you arrive, your favorite author is having dinner by himself or herself and asks you to sit with them, before you even see your friends or they see you. You have two choices: (1) You can sit with the author but can’t tell your friends that you’ve abandoned them for three hours, or (2) Meet your friends and lose the only chance you’ll ever have to talk with the author. Pick one or the other — no exceptions or communication to your friends to tell them about the author — and explain why.

That’s a tough one for me. I would hate to abandon my friends, but my closest friends would totally get it and would forgive me. I’m terrible at making decisions and I’m not really sure what I would do. I’m not super social, so I would probably stay with my friends instead of being super awkward and embarrassing myself.

QUESTION 2:You’ve got an opportunity to spend a few hours alone “in your bedroom” with a character from any book you’ve previously read. The character tells you that (s)he would like to lock the door and spend some alone time with you. What book and character is it, and do you decide to enter the room and lock the door, or tell them you aren’t interested?

My recent book crush was Porter from Alex, Approximately. So if I wasn’t married and was quite a bit younger, I would love to hang with him. For friendship with a girl, I would pick Molly from The Upside of Unrequited. But it would be creepy for her to want to lock the door so we could be alone.

QUESTION 3: If you could turn any male character from one of your favorite books into a female character (or change a female into a male) in the book or book series, which one and why?

Willowdeen from Dumplin. I just think it would be a funny reversal to read about a boy entering a beauty pageant to piss off his mom.

QUESTION 4: What blogger currently on your follower’s list (meaning they follow you too) do you admire the most and why?

No real favorites yet. I’m still really new to this, but I’ve found a lot of great bloggers already.

QUESTION 5:If you could change any one decision your favorite book character made, what would it be and why?

Since I just finished Tiger Lily, I would say Pan. I would want them together even though it changes everything.

QUESTION 6:If you could pick 1 character from a book and 1 character from a TV show you watch (that is NOT based on a book) to be in a relationship together, who would you choose, and why?

I don’t watch a ton of TV shows, so I’m not really sure on this one. I do love Jess from New Girl, but I’m not sure who I would put her with. If I think of something, I’ll come back and edit this.

QUESTION 7:It’s your last day on Earth. As you are about to cross that final finish line, a mysterious shadow appears, giving you a choice: (1) You can go move forward to whatever comes next for you [based on your own spiritual or religious beliefs], or (2) you can become a character in a book series and exist permanently doing whatever that author chooses to do with you in the book. Which do you choose, and if it’s option 2, reveal the book and author.

Probably move forward to whatever comes next. I wouldn’t want to live my life dictated by someone else, even a super cool author.

QUESTION 8:If you could steal a pet from someone in any book you’ve read, but had to replace it with a friend’s pet (meaning they wouldn’t ever see their pet again), would you do it? If so, explain the who and why.

Probably not. I’m too nice and wouldn’t want to upset anyone.

QUESTION 9:If you could turn someone from your real life into a character from a book, who from your life, who in the book and why?

I probably can’t answer that unless it was someone with a small role in my life.

QUESTION 10: Post a picture of the cover of a book you read in 2000 and the book you are currently reading now. (Note: if you weren’t alive in 2000, pick the first book you ever read and tell everyone what year it was from).

Does anyone remember what they read in 2000? I most likely read the most recent Ann Rule book though.

Just finished Emma In The Night.

QUESTION 11:Your favorite character (under 18) needs a place to stay for 3 months and asks you if (s)he could stay in your spare room (yes, you have one for the sake of this question). Who is it and what is the reason (s)he needs to stay with you?

Even though I know they need to fight, I would probably say Katherine and August from This Savage Song. I would want to keep them safe.

QUESTION 12: What is your favorite genre and why?

I’m a huge YA reader. Yes, I’m grown, but there is just something about YA that draws me in. I also love the diversity I see that I usually don’t find in as many adult books. For adult books, I like fantasy and thrillers/suspense/crime. Anything that gets my attention quickly and makes me think.

Since I’m still new to blogging, I don’t really know anyone well enough to tag them. But please consider yourself tagged if you want to do this one. Please just let me know (tag me or comment with the link) so I can read your answers, too.